Keene State drops Plymouth State in baseball at the Home of the Fisher Cats

Apr 20, 2007

MANCHESTER, N.H. - The Keene State College
baseball team turned four double plays and took advantage of six
Plymouth State University errors Friday afternoon and handed the
Panthers an 8-3 defeat in a Little East Conference game played at
MerchantsAuto.com Stadium, home of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.

Both teams recorded 11 hits but the Owls scored seven unearned
runs to capture the victory. It was a 5-3 game after six innings
before Keene State put the game away with three runs in the top of
the ninth inning. The Owls improve to 17-9 overall and 4-1 in
conference play, while the Panthers fall to 8-13 and 3-4.

Senior Josh Labossiere (Lincoln, R.I.) went
4-for-4 at the plate to lead the Panthers, but was charged with two
errors in center field. Junior Brandon Hodge
(Bradford, Vt.) and senior Jamie Aceto
(Cumberland, R.I.) also collected two hits for the Panthers.

The Owls took a 3-0 lead with single runs in the second, third
and fourth innings. PSU got on the board in the last of the fifth
when sophomore Jay Kleponis (Reading, Mass.)
doubled and later scored on an infield out. Both teams plated a
pair of runs in the sixth inning before Keene State pulled away in
the ninth.

Junior left-hander Jamie Morin (Goffstown, N.H.) picked up the
win for Keene State, improving to 3-2 after working six innings and
allowing just one earned run. Junior Chip Hale
(Londonderry, N.H.) had a solid outing for PSU, going seven innings
and giving up seven hits and one earned run, but took the loss to
fall to 3-5.

Both teams continue conference play this weekend. PSU visits
Southern Maine and Keene State travels to UMass Boston for 12 noon
doubleheaders on Saturday, and the Panthers and Owls will meet
again on Sunday in Plymouth (2:00 p.m.) Sunday's game was
originally scheduled to be played in Keene on April 4, and has been
postponed four times, and will now be moved to a different
location.